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Is it a gold watch for 27 years of loyal service or the opening salvo to 27 more years of contretemps?

It’s Shakespeare My Box, Lowest of the Low’s career retrospective box set!
With 72 songs on 7 pieces of vinyl, a 24 page full colour booklet of incriminating photos and testimonials, stickers, posters and handwritten lyrics you’ll know everything there is to know about the Low… except perhaps why they’re wearing blindfolds on the cover of Shakespeare My Butt.

In addition to the Boxset, fans will also have Exclusive Access to purchase tickets to a once-in-a-lifetime Private show in Toronto at the Dakota Tavern (249 Ossington Ave) on November 21st, 2018. Tickets can only be purchased in conjunction with the sale of a Boxset and a maximum of 2 tickets can be purchased per Boxset. There will be two set-times at the Dakota Tavern, an Early Show (approx. 7PM) and a Late Show (approx. 11PM). Pick these up quick as Tickets to the shows are limited!

The Lowest of the Low has released the first single ‘Powerlines’ from their upcoming album ‘Do The Right Now’. Watch the new lyric video for the song now. It features the breath taking cinematography of Tom Ryaboi, editing of Andre Bijelic, and direction of our friend Lawrence Nichols.

Well, it was a journey. A true journey! But after a few months the final touches have been added to the new Lowest of the Low record Do The Right Now! Stay tuned, we’ll be keeping you posted on developments and release dates.

On June 23rd my merry crew hit the Horseshoe Tavern to capture myself and the DGA opening for Art Bergmann. This live performance is part of the footage we then used to create the video for Swamp.

It’s the 3rd video from my recent record Spit Sputter and Sparkle. The video is a desert dystopia, the song inspired by months of marathon Breaking Bad sessions. Haze, dilapitated shacks, skulls and snakes.

Once again a big shout out to Jill Riley, Ruby B Hawkins, Kathleen Olmstead and Tim Thompson. And this time a huge thanks to the folks at the Horseshoe Tavern as well.

Swamp is scheduled to premiere on Exclaim Magazine’s website as an exclusive feature on Wednesday, August 17th.

Tickets for Ron’s latest three night residency at Kensington Market’s favourite stop Graffiti’s Bar and Grill are now on sale. Ron promises new songs, new stories and a few surprises. His special guest will be the amazing Liz Stringer from Australia.

On June 11th the same merry band of videographers marched once again into a rented room at Artscape to embark on a second DIO (“do it ourselves”) project.
After copious amounts of face paint and a couple hours of pitch blackness, save for a single blue industrial light, we shot the footage for Till IT Kills Ya – a montage of heck of sorts, and a tribute to Kurt Cobain and the pitfalls of celebrity.
Once again I have to thank Kathleen Olmstead, Jill Riley, Ruby B Hawkins and Tim Thompson for their help, creative ideas in the heat of the moment and their willingness to roll up their sleeves and do whatever it takes to get the shots in the can.
Till It Kills Ya is scheduled to be up on the site the week of June 20th.

TORONTO, ON – March 24, 2016 – Canadian singer-songwriter, Ron Hawkins, will release his new album, Spit Sputter and Sparkle, tomorrow via Pheromone Recordings. The album features 11 new originals, including the first single/video, Beautiful Girl, which is sitting pretty at #12 on CBC’s R2-20, and check out the whole album today as part of First Play on CBCmusic.ca. Before Ron kicks off his upcoming tour dates on March 29th in Winnipeg, he will spend two nights at Lee’s Palace on March 25th and 26th with Lowest of the Low (full details below). Spit Sputter and Sparkle is Ron’s 15th album of original material and due to lift him onto the musical pe destal he has clearly earned. Album is available on iTunes http://bit.ly/rhsssitunes and physical at http://bit.ly/rhssscd .

“There’s plenty here for fans of Hawkins and Lowest of the Low and if this is what he can come up with on such a quick turnover, then we’d happily receive an album every year from one of the country’s most prized artists.”
– CBCMusic.ca

As lead singer/multi-instrumentalist of Canada’s legendary Lowest of the Low, Ron has enjoyed many accolades through the years. Chart Magazine honoured the group’s 1991 debut album, Shakespeare My Butt, with spots in the top 10 of the Top 100 Canadian Albums of All Time, Ron has received Toronto station 102.1 The Edge’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2000), and has been voted Songwriter of the Year by NOW Magazine’s reader’s poll in 2000 and once again in 2015. In 2008 Lowest of the Low was inducted into the Canadian Indie Rock Hall of Fame and awarded gold records for Shakespeare My Butt.

On March 13th a ragtag band of videographers (read friends) marched into a rented room at Artscape and embarked on a DIO (“do it ourselves”) project.
In three hours (and for $75) we shot the Beautiful Girl video, and after a day of editing in i-Movie we came up with this… the first video for Spit Sputter and Sparkle.
My intention is to make a video a month for every song on the album. Stay tuned.
And pop in often to see how the challenge goes.
But till then enjoy.
Thanks to Kathleen Olmstead, Jill Riley, Tim Thompson and, especially, Ruby B Hawkins (who shot %90 of the footage she didn’t appear in).